Small_File_Media_Festival.mdwn (766B)
1 The **Small File Media Festival** is a film festival in Canada, focused on short films with file sizes less than five megabytes. 2 3 According to their website, SFMF works in defense of the tiny image. Size matters, and small is better, tiny is best, which is not merely to argue for a different aesthetics or narrative structures (that too) but also for an understanding that all media is media ecology – and as such, directly related to infrastructures with environmental costs. 4 5 * [Official website](https://smallfile.ca), sadly, they have a poorly optimized website that fails almost entirely to display on slow-bandwidth and old browsers. The fact that the main page is more than half the size of a five-megabyte film somewhat ruins the point of their activism.